Signatory Linkwood 9 Year & Meikle Toir “The Turbo” Speyside Malts!

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1:52 – Linkwood Nosing
3:02 – Linkwood Tasting
5:32 – The Turbo Nosing
6:30 – The Turbo Tasting

Well what do we have here? A couple of delicious Speysides that are going to hit opposite ends of the taste spectrum!? That’s today’s objective as I review a young fruity Linkwood against a new peated line from the hand and mind of Billy Walker at GlenAllachie.

The Signatory Vintage bottling of a 9-year-old Linkwood was matured on a Charred Wine Hogshead and is from cask 306197. It was bottled in a 750ml bottle at a hefty 58.2% abv. Retail priced at only $104, I couldn’t pass it up on the shelf.

The Meikle Toir “The Turbo” is described on their website as, “Taking the ‘heart of the heart’ of our distillate – the spirit cut which contains the highest phenol content – ‘The Turbo’ entails an amplified smoky identity. The 2023 Release is a combination of three American virgin oak casks and five Oloroso hogsheads. The result is a multi-faceted whisky with a powerful punch of peat.” From the bottle we know that it hasn’t had any color added, is 5 years old, with a phenol count of 71 ppm on the malted barley. It’s bottled in a 700ml bottle at 100 proof and retails around $75 to $95.

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